Term
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Definition
Actual competence and performance
may not match chronological age |
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Term
| Activites of Daily living (ADLs) |
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Definition
Basic self-care tasks
bathing, dressing,e ating |
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Term
| Instrumental activities of daily living (IADLs) |
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Definition
Conducting business of everday life
require cognitive competence
shopping, food prep, housekeeping |
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Term
| Factors in a long life (2) |
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Definition
| Heredity, Environment/lifestyle |
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Term
| factors in a long life: Enviornmnent/lifestyle (9) |
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Definition
Health diet, normal weight
Excrcise
Low substance use
Optimisim
Low stress
Social support
community involvement
learning |
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Term
| Aging and the nervous system (4) |
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Definition
Loss of brain weigh accelarates after 60
neurons lost in frontal loves, corpus callosum, cerebellum, glial cells
Autonomic nervouse system less efficient
Brain can compensate |
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Term
| Aging and the nervous system: brain can compensate with (3) |
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Definition
New fivers, neurons
New connections
Use more parts of brain |
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Term
| Visual impariments and aging (5) |
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Definition
Lower visual acuity
Poor dark adaptation, sensitivity to glare
Decreased color, depth perception
Cataracts
Macular Degeneration |
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Term
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Definition
Need less sleep
Earlier bedtime and wake-up
More difficulites (insomnia, nighttime waking, sleep apnea, restless legs) |
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Term
| Physical appearance and mobility (6) |
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Definition
Skin thinner, rougher wrinkeled, spotted
Ears, nose, teeth, and hair change
Lose height and weight after 60
Muscle strength declines
Bone strength drops
Less flexibility |
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Term
| Factors in good health and aging (7) |
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Definition
| Optimism, self-efficacy, SES, ethnicity, sex, nutrition, exercise |
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Term
| Nutrition in late adulthood |
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Definition
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Term
| Nutrition in late adulthood: problems eating |
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Definition
Appetite, taste changes
chewing, digestion
shopping, cooking |
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Term
| Exercise in late adulthood: barriers (2) |
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Definition
Unaware of benefits
Discomforts |
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Term
| Sezuality in late adulthood (4) |
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Definition
| Still important, continue patterns from earlier years, enjoy activites other than intercourse, cultural influences |
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Term
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Definition
Genetically influenced declines
affects all members of species
Even happens if health is good |
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Term
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Definition
Declines due to heredity and environmen
Effects individualized
Illnesses and disabilites |
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Term
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Definition
Deteriorating cartilage in frequently used joints
Common, related to wear and tear |
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Term
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Definition
Autoimmune response, affects whole body
Inflamed connective tissues
Cartilage grows |
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Term
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Definition
Too little insulin or cells insensitive to insulin
Increases in late adulthood
Ris of long-term damage |
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Term
| Adult-onset diabetes: Risk of long-term damage |
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Definition
Circulartory system
Eyes, kidneys, nerves |
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Term
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Definition
| thought and behavior impairments that disrupt everyday life |
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Term
| Mental disabilities in late adulthood |
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Definition
| Parkinson's disease, alzheimer's disease, cerebrovasuclar dementia |
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Term
| Alzheimer's Disease: Incidence |
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Definition
| Higher with age - nearly 50% over 80 |
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Term
| alzheimer's Disease: symptoms |
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Definition
| Forgetting, disorientatoin, personality change, depressin, motor problems, delusions, speech problems, infections |
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Term
| alzheimer's Disease: brain changes |
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Definition
| neurofibrillary tangles, amyloid plaques in cerebral cortex |
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Term
| alzheimer's Disease: Risk factors/protective factors |
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Definition
Genetic predispositions
High-fat diet. Mediterranean diet may help
Education,active lifestyle may help |
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Term
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Definition
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Term
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Definition
Recognition easier than recall
Implicit memory beter than deliberate |
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Term
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Definition
very long-term recall
autobiographical memory |
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Term
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Definition
remembering to engage in planned actions
Event-based easier than time based
Use reminders, repetition to help |
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Term
| Langauge processing in late adulthood (4) |
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Definition
comprehension changes very little
problems retrieving specific words
problems planning what to say
compensation |
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Term
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Definition
Depth and breadth of practical knowledge
Reflect on knowledge
Apply knowledge to improve life
Listening and evaluating
advice
Altruistic creativity |
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